Re: [CGUYS] Buying tv from Circuit City?

[Eric S. Sande]

They get tax breaks from local communities, often paying no local tax, sell 
products below cost until the competition goes out of
business, mislabel products as 'made in US' when they're imported [not from 
US territories either], make employees work off the clock,
fire employees who want to have a union, and underpay their >employees so 
badly that many have to apply for food stamps and state health care 
programs.


Wow, how do they do that?  All of my employees are forced to
pay union dues, are given no choice about full medical care,
pensions, educational benefits, and have guaranteed no layoff
contracts.  I also make them comply with OSHA standards and
cruelly pay for their educations and in fact I force them to sit
through required professional training throughout their careers.

I personally supervise their professional development and on
numerous occasions make them do stuff like take long,
onerous breaks at high class restaurants to eat lunch at my
expense.

Even though they cry for more I never let them work for more
than 37.5 hours a week, except in cases where they bend my
arm, and then I'm more than likely to double their wages (which
are extremely high to begin with).

Occasionally Ben-Hur's galley has to get up to ramming speed,
but that's where the training and loyalty pays off.  I'd like to see
how they do that at Wal-Mart.

Every now and then I compel them to accept presents.

Even worse, I make it a point to torture them by accomodating
their personal lives and maintaining a flexible attitude, which I
know is merely an exhibition of weakness.

You know, I really wonder how I seem to stay profitable and
have zero employee turnover.  I really ought to get into a line
of work that doesn't really need all these highly skilled career
professionals that I'm competing for.

I guess Wal-Mart can make it work, after a fashion, but my
business model is different.  Anyone that deliver the kind of
professional levels of expertise and reliability that I'm looking
for is welcome to come and compete for the jobs that I
probably don't have openings for once every five years or so.

Although I usually replace due to promotions, not hiring.

I am going to be looking for education, experience, security
clearances, long resumes, and suchlike.  I haven't got the
budget or the headcount to do interns anymore.

What disturbs me is that there doesn't appear to be an entry
level "middle" sort of job anymore.  I started as an operator
at the phone company, but I started with a degree in psychology
and considerable grad school.  I knew that was equivalent to
"working in the mailroom"  but there was a path to advancement.

I'd say that the economy was pretty bad back then, I did some
crap jobs too and it's easy to say a job sucks until you haven't
got one.  That is what Walmart counts on, they'll AWAYS
have a work force no matter what.

I'm in a position now to not operate that way, but I wasn't
always.

I don't care for Wal-Mart, and I won't buy there, but it is what
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[CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves Digital TV Delay

[One Man]

I disagree.

I visited the mall this summer, and it needed to be resodded then.  It's not a 
worthwhile expenditure for Congress, but worthwhile for the tourist industry 
and provides jobs.  

> Resodding the mall (wrecked by the wonderful outpouring of
> support for the inauguration) may well be a worthwhile
> expenditure for congress, but not in an emergency economic
> and job stimulation package.


  


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Re: [CGUYS] A Mac user's take on the Windows 7 user interface

[mike]

Something to realize...with over 90% of the market they aren't trying to
lure any mac people, they are trying to lure those XP business users.  Mac
users, like Tom, are trying to keep the impression that 'win 7 looks like
crap', to try and keep some of that momentum going for new users.  Trouble
is, Vista hasn't been crap since sp 1 came out, and the win7 beta is coming
out stronger since it's really just vista 1.5.

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 7:08 PM, John A. Newitt  wrote:

> Sounds like Windows 7 will not be luring many Mac switchers back to
> Windows. - John
>
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Re: [CGUYS] A Mac user's take on the Windows 7 user interface

[mike]

now THAT'S sarcasm.

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Chris Dunford wrote:

> > Some reviewers write about the big picture, some
> > focus on the small picture.
>
> The small picture being, apparently, what's good and not good about the OS.
>
> > However, Win7 looks pretty crappy from either vantage point.
>
> I am shocked--SHOCKED--to learn that this is your conclusion. I was so sure
> that it was going to knock your socks off and that you'd be singing its
> praises.
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Re: [CGUYS] Buying tv from Circuit City?

[Tom Piwowar]

To compensate for the risk I would want a really big discount. I bet they 
won't be offering anything that big.

Every time I checked Circuit City prices against others I found Circuit 
City (and Best Buy too) were much too high. Even adding shipping costs 
for a large TV I saved $100s by shopping on the internet. So be sure to 
do your research.

Often liquidators will haul in all kinds of junk to unload on 
bargain-crazed consumers. With TVs it is often hard to tell exactly what 
you are buying. Every brand has many models and stores like Circuit City 
sometimes get their own model numbers so it is hard to compare.

>*RCA tv from the 60s that was hand-me-down seems to have finally died, just
>in time for me to consider buying a new, HD-ready tv.  Someone suggested I
>might get a deal at Circuit City but wonder if it would be too much of a
>gamble if something goes wrong and all sales are final.  Anyone here been
>snapping up any "bargains" there?


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Re: [CGUYS] cordless phone battery question

[Rev. Stewart Marshall]

Pretty similar.

Stewart


At 10:45 PM 1/28/2009, you wrote:

This is for a cordless phone, not a cell phone.

Thanks

Randall

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall <
popoz...@earthlink.net> wrote:

> The charges should be a little smarter than that.
>
> Very often some cell phones come with two types of batteries. Standard or
> extended.
>
> Of course the extended can have anywhere from a few to double the Mah
> capacity.  But you use the same charger with them.
>
> Stewart


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Re: [CGUYS] Buying tv from Circuit City?

[b_s-wilk]

b_s-wilk wrote:

 I don't shop at Sam's club, since it's owned by evil trolls.


?
Please elucidate. 


Sam's Club is owned by Walmart. Since Sam Walton died Walmart has been 
the epitome of a bad neighbor. They get tax breaks from local 
communities, often paying no local tax, sell products below cost until 
the competition goes out of business, mislabel products as 'made in US' 
when they're imported [not from US territories either], make employees 
work off the clock, fire employees who want to have a union, and 
underpay their employees so badly that many have to apply for food 
stamps and state health care programs.


Worst, the Waltons, Alice Walton in particular, has been spending 
$millions for lobbying to repeal the estate tax so they can keep all of 
their +$80 billions and not pay for the resources that gave Sam Walton 
the opportunity to build his company in the first place.


Sorry, Stewart, et al, that you don't have choices where you live. 
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Re: [CGUYS] cordless phone battery question

[Ranbo]

This is for a cordless phone, not a cell phone.

Thanks

Randall

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall <
popoz...@earthlink.net> wrote:

> The charges should be a little smarter than that.
>
> Very often some cell phones come with two types of batteries. Standard or
> extended.
>
> Of course the extended can have anywhere from a few to double the Mah
> capacity.  But you use the same charger with them.
>
> Stewart
>
>
>
> At 08:29 PM 1/28/2009, you wrote:
>
>> Yes. In fact, the higher the mah the better, as it signifies more
>> power over time (milliamps in an hour). The only remote danger might
>> be that the cell would draw too much current when charging, but I
>> seriously doubt that would be a problem.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Ranbo  wrote:
>> > Hate to ask another non-computer question, but figure this would be a
>> good
>> > place to ask:  Cordless phone battery keeps losing charge so want to
>> replace
>> > it. Original is 3.6 v, 600Mah (for AT&T, 2.4ghz phone/answering
>> machine),
>> > but when I search for it online only or mostly finding ones that are 700
>> or
>> > 800 Mah. Can I replace with a higher Mah?
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Re: [CGUYS] A Mac user's take on the Windows 7 user interface

[Chris Dunford]

> Some reviewers write about the big picture, some 
> focus on the small picture.

The small picture being, apparently, what's good and not good about the OS.

> However, Win7 looks pretty crappy from either vantage point.

I am shocked--SHOCKED--to learn that this is your conclusion. I was so sure
that it was going to knock your socks off and that you'd be singing its
praises. 

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Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves Digital TV Delay

[Tony B]

There's probably a better solution than a delay. Maybe just allow the
coupons to be used for reimbursement *after* a purchase.


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Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves Digital TV Delay

[rleesimon]

But house didn't !!

-Original Message-
From: Mike Sloane [mailto:mikeslo...@verizon.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: Senate Approves Digital TV Delay


For the details, see


Mike

Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
> House voted it down.  No delay.
> 
> Stewart
> 
> 
> At 09:08 AM 1/27/2009, you wrote:
>> Senate Approves Digital TV Delay
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Re: [CGUYS] cordless phone battery question

[Rev. Stewart Marshall]

The charges should be a little smarter than that.

Very often some cell phones come with two types of batteries. 
Standard or extended.


Of course the extended can have anywhere from a few to double the Mah 
capacity.  But you use the same charger with them.


Stewart


At 08:29 PM 1/28/2009, you wrote:

Yes. In fact, the higher the mah the better, as it signifies more
power over time (milliamps in an hour). The only remote danger might
be that the cell would draw too much current when charging, but I
seriously doubt that would be a problem.


On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Ranbo  wrote:
> Hate to ask another non-computer question, but figure this would be a good
> place to ask:  Cordless phone battery keeps losing charge so want 
to replace

> it. Original is 3.6 v, 600Mah (for AT&T, 2.4ghz phone/answering machine),
> but when I search for it online only or mostly finding ones that are 700 or
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Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves Digital TV Delay

[Steve at Verizon]

PBS, no favorite of the neocons, stood to lose $22M with a delay.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jEqzyZfGUgUWJQfcJ98kJK_LiiOwD95V41187

and if the poor couldn't get their act together in 12 months, it's 
unlikely they will in another 4.


Resodding the mall (wrecked by the wonderful outpouring of support for 
the inauguration) may well be a worthwhile expenditure for congress, but 
not in an emergency economic and job stimulation package. Several 
analysts predict the Senate will take a lot of the lights of this 
Christmas tree of special interests.


(I agree with you on the jet, but lets not forget that more from the 
right side of the aisle voted against the big bank bailout last year 
(yes, it was Bush's idea.) than the left side.)


Tom Piwowar wrote:

House voted it down.  No delay.



The neocons are on a tear. They are probably pissed off that Citi was 
stopped from spending $50,000,000 on a new airplane toy. So no TV for the 
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Re: [CGUYS] cordless phone battery question

[Tony B]

Yes. In fact, the higher the mah the better, as it signifies more
power over time (milliamps in an hour). The only remote danger might
be that the cell would draw too much current when charging, but I
seriously doubt that would be a problem.


On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Ranbo  wrote:
> Hate to ask another non-computer question, but figure this would be a good
> place to ask:  Cordless phone battery keeps losing charge so want to replace
> it. Original is 3.6 v, 600Mah (for AT&T, 2.4ghz phone/answering machine),
> but when I search for it online only or mostly finding ones that are 700 or
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Re: [CGUYS] cordless phone battery question

[Rev. Stewart Marshall]

the Mah is milli amp hour.  It determines how long it will 
run.  (Actually it is how much amps it has, but higher amps means 
longer lasting.)


It should and it will last a little longer.

Stewart


At 08:24 PM 1/28/2009, you wrote:

Hate to ask another non-computer question, but figure this would be a good
place to ask:  Cordless phone battery keeps losing charge so want to replace
it. Original is 3.6 v, 600Mah (for AT&T, 2.4ghz phone/answering machine),
but when I search for it online only or mostly finding ones that are 700 or
800 Mah. Can I replace with a higher Mah?

Also, any suggestions on local (D.C. area) or online places to get cordless
batteries inexpensively?

Thanks again

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Re: [CGUYS] A Mac user's take on the Windows 7 user interface

[Tom Piwowar]

>

Some reviewers write about the big picture, some focus on the small 
picture. 
I don't think that writers who look at the big picture are any less 
correct than those who focus on the details. However, Win7 looks pretty 
crappy from either vantage point.


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Re: [CGUYS] A Mac user's take on the Windows 7 user interface

[Wayne Dernoncourt]

Tom Piwowar
>>*Big* difference. One may not agree with the conclusions, but at least
>>there are no incendiary remarks.
>
> You don't know incendiary. You want to see incendiary, read this...
>
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13526_3-10148896-27.html
>
> "MSN Mobile Music: Worst idea ever?"
>
> "Now here's a recipe for success: Take a brand that your
> parent company's been on the verge of abandoning for the
> last four years. Slap it on a new music download store
> for mobile phones. Encrust all the tracks with DRM, even
> though the rest of the music download industry is finally
 

I believe this is an example of something called sarcasm.

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[CGUYS] cordless phone battery question

[Ranbo]

Hate to ask another non-computer question, but figure this would be a good
place to ask:  Cordless phone battery keeps losing charge so want to replace
it. Original is 3.6 v, 600Mah (for AT&T, 2.4ghz phone/answering machine),
but when I search for it online only or mostly finding ones that are 700 or
800 Mah. Can I replace with a higher Mah?

Also, any suggestions on local (D.C. area) or online places to get cordless
batteries inexpensively?

Thanks again

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Re: [CGUYS] scanner

[Rev. Stewart Marshall]

There are two components to making a scanner work.

First there are the drivers that communicate with the software and 
the scanner.  Then there is the software that will do it.


Unisntall Presto and download for free Irfanview.

I am not sure if Gimp does it but you can try that also.  Both are free.

Stewart


At 06:46 PM 1/28/2009, you wrote:

I have a swell little scanner ...travelscan 464 ...it comes, of course, with
a cd...well, it includes presto image manager which is slow/cumbersome; on
my laptop the scanner shows up with microsoft image manager software and
works like a champ (winxpprosp3) ...I have no idea how it got that way.
After crash, my desktop (winxphomesp3) is redone fresh (a parallel xp
install got me everything back ...cool).  I don't want Presto and I wonder
how to get it to work like on my laptop?  Do I need to just install the
driver without Presto?  Or what?  Before, I had to run a black and white
sheet through the scanner with the presto thing to get it initialized.  I
don't think my laptop ever required that and it works fine & scans fine.
How should I approach this?  ...TIA!!


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Re: [CGUYS] A Mac user's take on the Windows 7 user interface

[Tom Piwowar]

>*Big* difference. One may not agree with the conclusions, but at least  
>there are no incendiary remarks.

You don't know incendiary. You want to see incendiary, read this...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13526_3-10148896-27.html

"MSN Mobile Music: Worst idea ever?"

"Now here's a recipe for success: Take a brand that your parent company's 
been on the verge of abandoning for the last four years. Slap it on a new 
music download store for mobile phones. Encrust all the tracks with DRM, 
even though the rest of the music download industry is finally moving 
away from DRM. Make sure that the downloads are tethered to the user's 
handset, so they can't keep them when they upgrade phones in a year or 
two. Charge more than the competition. Then, when questioned what the 
heck you could possibly have been thinking, blame a business partner 
who's actually running the store for you!

"That's what Microsoft has done with Thursday's launch of MSN Mobile 
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Re: [CGUYS] Buying tv from Circuit City?

[katan]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:21:36 -0500, Robert wrote:

>b_s-wilk wrote:
>>  I don't shop at Sam's club, since it's owned by evil trolls.
>? 
>
>Please elucidate. 

Evil Troll Wal*Mart and Sams*Club are owned by the same Evil-Doers.

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Re: [CGUYS] Scanned

[Tony B]

Alas, the OP got booted from the list just as we all tried to find out
what he was really trying to accomplish. Perhaps he'll take the time
to look through the archives, then get back to us. No point in arguing
file formats until we know what he's doing.


On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Tom Piwowar  wrote:
>>Yeah, but it's a document; PDF was made for documents. We don't know if it
>>needs to be edited or not.
>
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Re: [CGUYS] scanner

[Tony B]

You probably shouldn't really need to install a driver at all in
WinXP. Though, there may be some special hardware features (e.g. an
instant scan button) that would require proprietary software.

So, just uninstall Presto and use something else. Or leave it
installed and use something else. Maybe I'm just not understanding the
dilemma.


On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:46 PM, rleesimon  wrote:
> I have a swell little scanner ...travelscan 464 ...it comes, of course, with
> a cd...well, it includes presto image manager which is slow/cumbersome; on
> my laptop the scanner shows up with microsoft image manager software and
> works like a champ (winxpprosp3) ...I have no idea how it got that way.
> After crash, my desktop (winxphomesp3) is redone fresh (a parallel xp
> install got me everything back ...cool).  I don't want Presto and I wonder
> how to get it to work like on my laptop?  Do I need to just install the
> driver without Presto?  Or what?  Before, I had to run a black and white
> sheet through the scanner with the presto thing to get it initialized.  I
> don't think my laptop ever required that and it works fine & scans fine.
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Re: [CGUYS] Buying tv from Circuit City?

[Tom Piwowar]

>>  I don't shop at Sam's club, since it's owned by evil trolls.
>Please elucidate.

Walmart. The folks who shipped all those US jobs to China.


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Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves Digital TV Delay

[Tom Piwowar]

>House voted it down.  No delay.

The neocons are on a tear. They are probably pissed off that Citi was 
stopped from spending $50,000,000 on a new airplane toy. So no TV for the 
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Re: [CGUYS] Scanned

[Tom Piwowar]

>Yeah, but it's a document; PDF was made for documents. We don't know if it
>needs to be edited or not.

That's right, but from that point you veer into wrongness.

A scanned image is a bunch of pixels, a raster image. The basic file 
format for this is TIFF. You can compress the TIFF with something like 
lossless LZW, or for extreme compression use a lossy format, usually JPEG.

PDF is a vector format derived from PostScript. If you had the original 
document file, not a scan, then saving it into PDF would be a good idea. 
The PDF would contain the font information, the text (coded as ASCII or 
UTF), and geometry infomation about how the text is positioned on the 
page.

While a PDF can contain another file format, like TIFF or JPEG, you are 
not accomplishing anything useful by doing that. You are just wrapping 
one file format around a different file format. Double wrapping may be 
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[CGUYS] scanner

[rleesimon]

I have a swell little scanner ...travelscan 464 ...it comes, of course, with
a cd...well, it includes presto image manager which is slow/cumbersome; on
my laptop the scanner shows up with microsoft image manager software and
works like a champ (winxpprosp3) ...I have no idea how it got that way.
After crash, my desktop (winxphomesp3) is redone fresh (a parallel xp
install got me everything back ...cool).  I don't want Presto and I wonder
how to get it to work like on my laptop?  Do I need to just install the
driver without Presto?  Or what?  Before, I had to run a black and white
sheet through the scanner with the presto thing to get it initialized.  I
don't think my laptop ever required that and it works fine & scans fine.
How should I approach this?  ...TIA!!


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Re: [CGUYS] Buying tv from Circuit City?

[Robert]

b_s-wilk wrote:

 I don't shop at Sam's club, since it's owned by evil trolls.

? 

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Re: [CGUYS] Buying tv from Circuit City?

[MrMike6by9]

Slight correction, with the combined Costco membership/American Express
charge card, you do get rebates for charged purchased at Costco with the
regular [Gold Star] membership. The business account isn't the same.

YMMV
>
> Costco business membership is $100. You get rebates on purchases. With
> the regular memberships at Costco and BJs, there's good prices but no
> rebates. Sometimes it's worth it to pay more to get more. I don't shop
> at Sam's club, since it's owned by evil trolls.
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Re: [CGUYS] Ubuntu Pocket Guide

[Rev. Stewart Marshall]

Try location 2 took me about a minute.

Stewart


At 05:14 PM 1/28/2009, you wrote:
I guess a lot of folks want that guide - I am downloading it now, 
and it will take about 25 minutes for a 2 meg .pdf file. I have two 
machines running Ubuntu, and I am always looking for something new 
to learn about it.


Thanks,

Mike


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Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves Digital TV Delay

[Mike Sloane]

For the details, see 



Mike

Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:

House voted it down.  No delay.

Stewart


At 09:08 AM 1/27/2009, you wrote:

Senate Approves Digital TV Delay




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Re: [CGUYS] Ubuntu Pocket Guide

[Mike Sloane]

I guess a lot of folks want that guide - I am downloading it now, and it 
will take about 25 minutes for a 2 meg .pdf file. I have two machines 
running Ubuntu, and I am always looking for something new to learn about it.


Thanks,

Mike

Michael Fernando wrote:

Ubuntu Pocket Guide
http://www.ubuntupocketguide.com/download.html

It begins with a brief intro to Ubuntu, GNU, Linux, etc.  It also covers
installation, dual booting, installation in an intel mac ...

Looks like a pretty good beginners guide.  Can't beat the price.




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Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves Digital TV Delay

[Rev. Stewart Marshall]

House voted it down.  No delay.

Stewart


At 09:08 AM 1/27/2009, you wrote:

Senate Approves Digital TV Delay



Article Tools Sponsored By
By BLOOMBERG NEWS
Published: January 26, 2009

The Senate voted on Monday to delay next month's transition to 
digital television until June 12 because some viewers would not be 
ready for the switch.


The voice vote followed a call by President Obama's administration 
to postpone the Feb. 17 date for major TV stations to stop sending 
traditional analog signals. Similar legislation awaits action in the 
House on Tuesday.


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Re: [CGUYS] Buying tv from Circuit City?

[Rev. Stewart Marshall]

Nice shot just wish there was one close by.  There isn't so I visit 
with the trolls.


Stewart


At 04:40 PM 1/28/2009, you wrote:
Costco business membership is $100. You get rebates on purchases. 
With the regular memberships at Costco and BJs, there's good prices 
but no rebates. Sometimes it's worth it to pay more to get more. I 
don't shop at Sam's club, since it's owned by evil trolls.


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Re: [CGUYS] Buying tv from Circuit City?

[b_s-wilk]

Costco business membership is $100. You get rebates on purchases. With 
the regular memberships at Costco and BJs, there's good prices but no 
rebates. Sometimes it's worth it to pay more to get more. I don't shop 
at Sam's club, since it's owned by evil trolls.





> Is that $100 per year?  Don't live very close to Costco and don't spend
> that
> much per year, so may not make sense for me to get business account anyway.
>
> Thanks for your and everyone else's suggestions.  Pretty definitely going
> to
> stay away from CC liquidation, unless it's near the end of the liquidation
> period (ends sometime in March) and they still have tvs, so have to mark
> them way, way down.  Nice fantasy, anyway.



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[CGUYS] Ubuntu Pocket Guide

[Michael Fernando]

Ubuntu Pocket Guide
http://www.ubuntupocketguide.com/download.html

It begins with a brief intro to Ubuntu, GNU, Linux, etc.  It also covers
installation, dual booting, installation in an intel mac ...

Looks like a pretty good beginners guide.  Can't beat the price.


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Re: [CGUYS] End for Zune?

[Rev. Stewart Marshall]

I would hope to god not.

There are some good phones that have come out from real cell phone 
manufacturers.


LG, Samsung, RIM and a few others have all put out some good products recently.

These folks know what they are doing much better in this arena than 
MS could ever hope.


Stewart


At 12:47 PM 1/28/2009, you wrote:

Either way the whole thing doesn't look good for those who were hoping for a
(god help us) zune phone.


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Re: [CGUYS] End for Zune?

[mike]

Either way the whole thing doesn't look good for those who were hoping for a
(god help us) zune phone.

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Snyder, Mark (IT-EI)
wrote:

> The Register's opinion piece thinks so because it dropped 54% last
> quarter, a $100m drop in revenue.
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/28/axe_the_zune/
>
> Thank you,
>
> Mark Snyder
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[CGUYS] End for Zune?

[Snyder, Mark (IT-EI)]

The Register's opinion piece thinks so because it dropped 54% last
quarter, a $100m drop in revenue.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/28/axe_the_zune/

Thank you,

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Re: [CGUYS] A Mac user's take on the Windows 7 user interface

[Chris Dunford]

> And factual errors about the OS?

It's certainly true that this review is more accurate than the other one,
but there actually is one error, I think. He implies that the taskbar app
thumbnails are new with Win7. They're improved, but not new--Vista had them,
too.

I'd also argue about "The Mac OS rarely crashes, and it recovers much better
when apps freeze. You can even restart the Finder without taking down the
OS." My experience is that Vista also rarely crashes, and that it almost
always recovers from app crashes. It "even" recovers from Explorer crashes,
too.

But these are nits. It's a well-written review.


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Re: [CGUYS] A Mac user's take on the Windows 7 user interface

[mike]

And factual errors about the OS?

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Reid Katan  wrote:

> Quoting "John A. Newitt" :
>
>  Sounds like Windows 7 will not be luring many Mac switchers back to
>> Windows. - John
>>
>> 
>>
>
> Now Tom, can you really not tell the difference between this review, and
> the one you posted?
>
> *Big* difference. One may not agree with the conclusions, but at least
> there are no incendiary remarks.
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Re: [CGUYS] A Mac user's take on the Windows 7 user interface

[Reid Katan]

Quoting "John A. Newitt" :


Sounds like Windows 7 will not be luring many Mac switchers back to
Windows. - John




Now Tom, can you really not tell the difference between this review,  
and the one you posted?


*Big* difference. One may not agree with the conclusions, but at least  
there are no incendiary remarks.



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Re: [CGUYS] Rejected posting to COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM

[John Duncan Yoyo]

This is a good arguments for using gmail or something similar for receiving
the list.

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Re: [CGUYS] Scanned

[Ralph]

I'm with Jeff on this.  It may not be the most efficient method, but
my scanner creates a jpeg which I "print" to a pdf doc.  I then attach
that to an email message.

For the print/conversion from jpeg to pdf, I use PDFCreator
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/


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Re: [CGUYS] Rejected posting to COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM

[Tom Piwowar]

>Why is this happening to me. I am not aware of me rejecting your posters.
>Please advise
>

>You  are not  authorized to  send  mail to  the COMPUTERGUYS-L  list from  
>your XXX account. You might be authorized  to post to the 
>list from another of your accounts, or perhaps when using another mail 
>program configured to use a  different e-mail address, but  LISTSERV has 
>no way  to associate this other account or address with yours. If  you 
>need assistance or if you have any questions regarding the  policy of the 
>COMPUTERGUYS-L list,  please contact the list owners at...

Marcio,

You were automatically deleted from the list because your ISP has been 
rejecting emails sent by the ListServer. They have been doing this every 
day since Jan 23. The message is "Relay access denied."

Others on the list may wish to expand on this.

My recommendation stands that you should not use a badly managed ISP for 
email. Any ISP that rejects email from AOL is certainly clueless.

I have put you back on the list, but if your ISP does not cooperate you 
will not be getting all the list mail and will eventually get 
automatically deleted again.

Tom


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Re: [CGUYS] Costco rebates [was: Buying tv from Circuit City?]

[Rev. Stewart Marshall]

Often the Sams and Walmarts have a rebate if you purchase Gasoline 
with their card, or a Walmart Discover card.


Stewart


At 06:36 AM 1/28/2009, you wrote:

The standard "Gold" membership at Costco is only $50 per year which provides
2 cards per household. If you get an AMEX Costco card, you get rebates for
charged purchases at Costco including your gasoline. If you step up to the
$100 membership, each eligible purchase qualifies for a rebate of 1, 2, or 3
percent, as follows: 3% for purchases of automobile gasoline at Costco
gasoline and domestic stand-alone gas stations, excluding gas purchased at
warehouse clubs other than Costco, superstores or supermarkets; 3% at
restaurants; 2% for travel purchases from airline, lodging, car rental,
cruise line, travel agency and tour operators; or 1% on all other eligible
purchases posted to your account. I often buy gas there whenever convenient
because I usually save as much as $ 0.20 - $ 0.25 per gallon over any other
local outlet. I think Sam's and BJ's also sell gas at certain locations as
well but, I can't speak to any rebate policies.
YMMV



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[CGUYS] Costco rebates [was: Buying tv from Circuit City?]

[MrMike6by9]

The standard "Gold" membership at Costco is only $50 per year which provides
2 cards per household. If you get an AMEX Costco card, you get rebates for
charged purchases at Costco including your gasoline. If you step up to the
$100 membership, each eligible purchase qualifies for a rebate of 1, 2, or 3
percent, as follows: 3% for purchases of automobile gasoline at Costco
gasoline and domestic stand-alone gas stations, excluding gas purchased at
warehouse clubs other than Costco, superstores or supermarkets; 3% at
restaurants; 2% for travel purchases from airline, lodging, car rental,
cruise line, travel agency and tour operators; or 1% on all other eligible
purchases posted to your account. I often buy gas there whenever convenient
because I usually save as much as $ 0.20 - $ 0.25 per gallon over any other
local outlet. I think Sam's and BJ's also sell gas at certain locations as
well but, I can't speak to any rebate policies.
YMMV


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Re: [CGUYS] A Mac user's take on the Windows 7 user interface

[Chris Dunford]

> Sounds like Windows 7 will not be luring many Mac switchers back to
> Windows. - John
> 
> 

Now -this- is an even-handed review. Compare and contrast with the earlier
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Re: [CGUYS] Scanned

[Fred Holmes]

At 03:30 PM 1/27/2009, Marcio V. Pinheiro wrote:
>I scanned a document and all went well. I sent it by e-mail as attachment but 
>it arrived in a large size not only filling the whole e-mail page but going 
>much beyond (jpeg). How can I email the documento in a size that fits the page?
>
>Many thanks
>
>Marcio

The size the recipient will see depends on the screen resolution of the 
recipient's computer, so one has to know that to get the size right.  
Generally, the picture will display natively on the recipient's computer in the 
recipient's e-mail client.  The recipient should right-click on the picture 
received, and then select "save image as . . " or similar option, to save the 
image to a file.  Then the recipient should open the file in whatever 
application he/she uses to view/edit pictures -- which generally can resize the 
loaded image for display purposes.

That being said, let's assume that a resolution of 400 x 300 pixels (adjust for 
aspect ratio) will do pretty well on most computers.  It needs to be small 
enough to display in the message window of the mail client; don't use the full 
screen resolution of the recipient.

Fred Holmes 


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Re: [CGUYS] Another...or the first..Re: [CGUYS] Win 7: A Clear-

[Tom Piwowar]

>Has it occurred that possibly..maybe..since you've never even seen windows 7
>that you could be...wrr...wrrr...mistaken?

I will stand by my endorsement, subject to revision at a later date.


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